Pith Number

pith:LRFTZBQF

pith:2012:LRFTZBQFMLK6E4IE2WWHSQ3RZJ

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An Information-Theoretic Perspective of the Poisson Approximation via the Chen-Stein Method

Igal Sason

arxiv:1206.6811 v4 · 2012-06-28 · cs.IT · math.IT · math.PR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LRFTZBQFMLK6E4IE2WWHSQ3RZJ}

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

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First computed	2026-05-18T03:27:01.644674Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5c4b3c860562d5e27104d5ac794371ca40d2ec789fbde77b3ade76ee8cd61abd

Aliases

arxiv: 1206.6811 · arxiv_version: 1206.6811v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1206.6811 · pith_short_12: LRFTZBQFMLK6 · pith_short_16: LRFTZBQFMLK6E4IE · pith_short_8: LRFTZBQF

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/LRFTZBQFMLK6E4IE2WWHSQ3RZJ \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 5c4b3c860562d5e27104d5ac794371ca40d2ec789fbde77b3ade76ee8cd61abd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e855138d6016b778940aebdbdb69bbf173c9b2bd65bfa88f4143416d4e629854",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT",
      "math.PR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2012-06-28T19:55:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6129d4e373d0b390135f484fc7f04afb0aee48393946d30ebf88fb0f13f2eaa1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1206.6811",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}